Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE PLATES
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1849)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (1855)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1880
- The Seven Lamps of Architecture (CONTAINING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON The Seven Lamps of Architecture
- II THE MSS. OF The Seven Lamps of Architecture (WITH ADDITIONAL PASSAGES)
- III MINOR Variæ Lectiones
- Plate section
II - THE MSS. OF The Seven Lamps of Architecture (WITH ADDITIONAL PASSAGES)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE PLATES
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1849)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (1855)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1880
- The Seven Lamps of Architecture (CONTAINING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON The Seven Lamps of Architecture
- II THE MSS. OF The Seven Lamps of Architecture (WITH ADDITIONAL PASSAGES)
- III MINOR Variæ Lectiones
- Plate section
Summary
The MSS. to which the editors have had access in the preparation of this volume are (1) the MS. of the book, together with various sheets of earlier drafts, (2) a copy of the second edition (1855), corrected by Ruskin for the revised edition of 1880. Both of these are now the property of an American collector, who purchased them from Mr. George Allen in 1902. A detailed collation of all differences between the MSS. and the printed text was, however, made before the MSS. were parted with, and this collation has been repeatedly used in the present volume. A reproduction of a page of the MS. is also given (p. 222).
One or two of the early sheets are headed “Sutton Bonnington, Loughborough” (Yorkshire), having, as it would seem, been written there, when Ruskin was travelling to Scotland in the spring of 1848.
On the back of one of these sheets is a draft of the scheme for the whole book, which bears out the author's statement (see above, p. 138 n.) of the difficulty he had to keep the number of the “lamps” down to seven.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 278 - 287Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903